Java the interst software for Hackers is going to be forgotten!

At least Java software has installed on 8 computers out of 10,but unfortunately 40 percent of this kinds of software is not up to date.
Java software threats is more than Acrobat reader software because it has security problem.








 This statistic shows more than 5.3 million attackers try to penetrate in Java software between 6 million attacks recorded from 9 mounts ago up to now.
This software has a system for upgrading but unfortunately this system has weakness in get information to access for users.
Some of security specialist believed that in order to high level of usage for java ,Microsoft company should corporate with another companies like Oracle for upgrading this software.  

Crime Ring Stole $70 Million Using Computer Virus

The FBI announced on (October 27,2010) about stole $70 million from U.S banks by an Eastern European cybercrime ring.in additions to the dozens of individuals charged in the U.S. and Britain Thursday, the FBI also said that five individuals in Ukraine had been detained in this day on suspicion of creating the computer virus used in the scam.These people used the powerful Zeus Trojan virus to crack open bank accounts and divert millions of Dollars to Eastern Europe.
Authorities said at the time that the ring was accused of stealing $12.5 million from accounts in U.S and Britain.

The number of spams are increasing

Symantec security company  reports that number of spams are increasing.
92 percent of Emails that users sent include spams at the end of July in 2010.
According to this company reports the number of spams were 89 percent in last year that shows 3 percent rather than last year.
 
The worst part of Symantec report is about new internet attack that refers to fraud.
In this fraud some live chat website's attack the credit factors of a person,but Symantec company told that number of phishing spams are decreasing to 5 percent between June and July of 2010.

Cyber Crime on the Rise in Spain

Authorities in Malaga, Spain, have reported that child pornography and fraud account for more than half of cybercrime, Euro Weekly reports. Since its creation more than 18 months ago, the Computer Crime Service of Malaga Public Prosecutor’s Office has investigated almost 500 crimes more than half of cases were related to fraud and the possession or distribution of child pornography. The remaining cases involved mainly slander, coercion and threats.
Despite frequent warnings, many people are tricked by phishing scams to steal bank passwords and false job offers. The victim is asked to give an account number, which is then used for money-laundering purposes. As many of these scams are base in foreign nations .they are extremely difficult to investigate and catching the perpetrators is a challenge. In the case of child porn, the consumers and distributors are often caught, but the criminals who abuse children remain anonymous.

www.cybercrime.com 

My comment : Nowadays,child pornography is one of the important issue.According to the text it needs more attention to this issue. In my opinion child pornography is the worst crime in the world in compare with the other computer crimes.

Hackers steal $6 million from British bank

Hackers can withdrawal more than 5 million pound to customer account numbers of British bank in England by penetrate to online system of this bank.
Rubbers planed to contaminated the central computers by Zeus virus and after that sent security information and password of online customer to them.
fifteen men and four women between age range of 23-47 arrested by police. Daily Mile newspaper told the rubber leader's lives in Chengford area in a three bed room apartment.

What is spyware?

Spyware is software that transmits personal information to a third party without the user's knowledge or consent. Spyware and adware install themselves on a user's machine, often as the trade-off for a piece of “free” software, collecting marketing data and distributing targeted advertising. With the emergence of lucrative online affiliate-marketing business models and the widespread ease with which these threats can be spread, adware and spyware are now major threats in cyberspace.
www.mcafee.com
My comment: Nowadays the number of cyberspace treat increasing so it is necessary to have a strong support from government.it can be giving information to people.for instance Spyware that I mentioned above will be a serious problem for users.

Kaspersky website hacked

A famous company website that produce security software and antivirus attacked by hackers.
This Russian company was proud that anybody cannot hacked it's website.
Hackers enter to main American server of this company,guide users that connect to Kaspersky server for updating and upgrading to unreal website and fake antivirus and transfer attacked files to their computers.

Pakistan blocks Facebook & Youtube

A Pakistani court decided to block Facebook.com because of caricatures of  Prophet Mohammad.
It had a bad effect on Muslims.
I t happened again for Youtube on the day after.Pakistan government believed that it is an emotional matter for Muslims and these two websites should respect to every one with different religions.

Symantec ranks India as 5th in cyber crime

Symantec in its “Internet Security Threat” 2009 report has ranked India 5th in malicious activity, i.e. a climb of six places. India is the highest spam originating country in the world, contributing 4 per cent to the worldwide spam volumes, while the country ranks first in the Asian region. On the basis of web-based attacks,India has gone up from the rank of 13 in 2008 to rank 3 in 2009, next to US and Brazil. Of the phishing URLs identified in India, 91 per cent targeted the financial services sector last year.

source:http://www.cyberlawtimes.com/2010/04/28/symantec-india-ranks-5th-world-cyber-crime/

cyber pornography

Nowadays cyber pornography is believed to be one of the largest businesses on the internet.The millions of pornographic website that grow on the internet are shows that.While pornography is not illegal in many countries although,child pornography is strictly illegal in most nations today.Cyber pornography includes: pornographic website,pornographic magazine produced using computers (to publish and print the material) and the internet (to  download pornographic pictures,photos,writing etc).
The persons who create and maintain the pornographic websites are liable.